Morning Peeps, Just wanted to check, what tyre pressures you find best for your Bonneville's? Thanks.
I think you will find most folk are in the 33F 37R ball park, subject to the rider’s own saddle bags.
Thanks DD for the detailed response, I'm around 73kg and don't carry any luggage, think I might have a little play around with them and hence wanted to gauge peoples opinions on it
33 front and 38 rear for me, just because that's what it states in the manual, and I've had no reason to change from that - I also have standard shocks and the standard Bridgestone BT45 tyres, and I really like the way my bike handles.
My cars always show higher pressures for extra passengers. My SR400 Yam shows higher pressures for passengers. Yet all the bigger bikes I have owned show only one set of pressures. Presumably these must be on the high side because elf n safety would rather you overinflate than underinflate. So if you are not hefty, and are riding solo, you must be running unnecessarily high pressures. We should be told...but I bet we won't be...
Apples and pears. Entirely different tyre construction and between cross ply/bias and radials and hybrids you have different tyre wall stiffness and tread flex. The pressure requirements will vary between different tyres on the same vehicle and nominally similar tyres for vehicles of different weights.
Even Triumph are not quite sure what to recommend. The T100 2011 manual recommends 33/37, but the 2012 manual recommends 33/41. It's the same bike. I had this doubt a few years back. Read in Triumph Rat that people preferred/recommended 33/41, have been running that ever since, it seems a bit better, but it could very well be a placebo effect. Oh, and I'm also 73kg. We don't have pies this side of the sea.
